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Embedly Pro Lets Your App Embed Content From Any Link

41 points by screeley 16y ago

citricsquid 16y ago
Not mentioned, but reddit use embedly -- thought that might be... interesting? http://blog.reddit.com/2010/04/now-this-is-how-you-pitch-your-product.html http://blog.reddit.com/2010/04/now-this-is-how-you-pitch-you...
- doki_pen 16y ago
  They don't currently use pro, that's why they weren't mentioned.
  - rhizome 16y ago
    Missed opportunity.
- ZoFreX 16y ago
  Very interesting, thanks for the link :)
nopal 16y ago
50,000 seems like a lot of URLs, especially if an app centralized and can cache its calls to Embedly. $20/month seems more than reasonable for this number of URLs.
- buro9 16y ago
  But why is there even a fee? I mean... there's how many affiliate links that embedly will be picking up as a result and writing as their own... they're earning from your using it... they should be paying you for giving them so much revenue.
  - screeley 16y ago
    Have you ever tried to make money on affilate links? In all honesty we make next to nothing from affiliating Amazon links. It's not even close to a viable business, we only do it because we don't like leaving money on the table.
    - buro9 16y ago
      Yes. I make about £3k per month off a site that I set up for my own amusement and time-wasting. 6 million page views per month, I'm only signed up to 4 affiliate schemes. Amazon pay the worst of all of them, that's true. It's a side project, but for something that I only do out of love £3k per month is quite tidy. Edit: I guess what I'm saying is that you could take skimlinks and knock them for six, and people would have a real benefit and reason to use embedly whereas skimlinks milk far too much and it's not even got a user benefit. PS: Are you hiring remote workers? I know how to make this work ;)
      - screeley 16y ago
        Interesting, I guess we are doing it wrong. I see what you are saying about skimlinks, we have received this advice in the past. It's just not something we are looking into now. We might be up for a commission based remote worker. :)
        buro9 16y ago
        Seriously consider it. Hit me on email and I'll tell you more detail: david @ buro9.com There are a couple of specifics to get right, mostly it's about giving a reason for webmasters to use it and what is massively under-estimated is that a lot of webmasters hang out places just like this and are asking for solutions to both embedding stuff and earning money.
bhousel 16y ago
Hmm. This would be perfect for a project I'm doing involving Amazon, except that they rewrite my amazon affiliate tag with their own... :-/
- screeley 16y ago
  Sorry, that's a bug. If the tag is there we should leave it and not add our own. We will work on fixing that.
  - bhousel 16y ago
    Thanks for the quick response!
jjcm 16y ago
Is there a demo/example page? Can't seem to find on on http://pro.embed.ly http://pro.embed.ly
- doki_pen 16y ago
  You can check out http://labs.embed.ly http://labs.embed.ly for now. It is built on pro. In the coming week will be releasing and blogging about some more demo apps.
mattthered 16y ago
This is awesome! I've been looking for a solution to do this for a while.
nicholaides 16y ago
I've been using this for a while in a product I'm developing. One great use case is that it makes it crazy easy for users to embed content.
PanMan 16y ago
I haven't found any (documented) limits to their free API. While it doesn't have the new added benefits, will it stay free? Unlimited requests?
- screeley 16y ago
  api.embed.ly will remain free, but it is a community resource. If someone is abusing it we will ask them to move over to Pro as to not effect the other users. We have not had to ask anyone to move over and don't see it happening in the near future. It's in our Terms of Service: http://api.embed.ly/terms http://api.embed.ly/terms

41 points by screeley 16y ago

Not mentioned, but reddit use embedly -- thought that might be... interesting? http://blog.reddit.com/2010/04/now-this-is-how-you-pitch-your-product.html http://blog.reddit.com/2010/04/now-this-is-how-you-pitch-you...

doki_pen 16y ago
They don't currently use pro, that's why they weren't mentioned.
- rhizome 16y ago
  Missed opportunity.
ZoFreX 16y ago
Very interesting, thanks for the link :)

nopal 16y ago

50,000 seems like a lot of URLs, especially if an app centralized and can cache its calls to Embedly. $20/month seems more than reasonable for this number of URLs.

buro9 16y ago
But why is there even a fee? I mean... there's how many affiliate links that embedly will be picking up as a result and writing as their own... they're earning from your using it... they should be paying you for giving them so much revenue.
- screeley 16y ago
  Have you ever tried to make money on affilate links? In all honesty we make next to nothing from affiliating Amazon links. It's not even close to a viable business, we only do it because we don't like leaving money on the table.
  - buro9 16y ago
    Yes. I make about £3k per month off a site that I set up for my own amusement and time-wasting. 6 million page views per month, I'm only signed up to 4 affiliate schemes. Amazon pay the worst of all of them, that's true. It's a side project, but for something that I only do out of love £3k per month is quite tidy. Edit: I guess what I'm saying is that you could take skimlinks and knock them for six, and people would have a real benefit and reason to use embedly whereas skimlinks milk far too much and it's not even got a user benefit. PS: Are you hiring remote workers? I know how to make this work ;)
    - screeley 16y ago
      Interesting, I guess we are doing it wrong. I see what you are saying about skimlinks, we have received this advice in the past. It's just not something we are looking into now. We might be up for a commission based remote worker. :)
      - buro9 16y ago
        Seriously consider it. Hit me on email and I'll tell you more detail: david @ buro9.com There are a couple of specifics to get right, mostly it's about giving a reason for webmasters to use it and what is massively under-estimated is that a lot of webmasters hang out places just like this and are asking for solutions to both embedding stuff and earning money.

bhousel 16y ago

Hmm. This would be perfect for a project I'm doing involving Amazon, except that they rewrite my amazon affiliate tag with their own... :-/

screeley 16y ago
Sorry, that's a bug. If the tag is there we should leave it and not add our own. We will work on fixing that.
- bhousel 16y ago
  Thanks for the quick response!

jjcm 16y ago

Is there a demo/example page? Can't seem to find on on http://pro.embed.ly http://pro.embed.ly

doki_pen 16y ago
You can check out http://labs.embed.ly http://labs.embed.ly for now. It is built on pro. In the coming week will be releasing and blogging about some more demo apps.

mattthered 16y ago

This is awesome! I've been looking for a solution to do this for a while.

nicholaides 16y ago

I've been using this for a while in a product I'm developing. One great use case is that it makes it crazy easy for users to embed content.

PanMan 16y ago

I haven't found any (documented) limits to their free API. While it doesn't have the new added benefits, will it stay free? Unlimited requests?

screeley 16y ago
api.embed.ly will remain free, but it is a community resource. If someone is abusing it we will ask them to move over to Pro as to not effect the other users. We have not had to ask anyone to move over and don't see it happening in the near future. It's in our Terms of Service: http://api.embed.ly/terms http://api.embed.ly/terms